GB1582790A - Non-woven fabrics - Google Patents

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GB1582790A
GB1582790A GB50216/77A GB5021677A GB1582790A GB 1582790 A GB1582790 A GB 1582790A GB 50216/77 A GB50216/77 A GB 50216/77A GB 5021677 A GB5021677 A GB 5021677A GB 1582790 A GB1582790 A GB 1582790A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D69/00Semi-permeable membranes for separation processes or apparatus characterised by their form, structure or properties; Manufacturing processes specially adapted therefor
    • B01D69/10Supported membranes; Membrane supports
    • B01D69/107Organic support material
    • B01D69/1071Woven, non-woven or net mesh
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10STECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10S428/903Microfiber, less than 100 micron diameter
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/26Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/27Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified weight per unit area [e.g., gms/sq cm, lbs/sq ft, etc.]
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/29Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
    • Y10T428/2982Particulate matter [e.g., sphere, flake, etc.]
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T442/00Fabric [woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.]
    • Y10T442/60Nonwoven fabric [i.e., nonwoven strand or fiber material]
    • Y10T442/608Including strand or fiber material which is of specific structural definition
    • Y10T442/609Cross-sectional configuration of strand or fiber material is specified
    • Y10T442/611Cross-sectional configuration of strand or fiber material is other than circular
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T442/00Fabric [woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.]
    • Y10T442/60Nonwoven fabric [i.e., nonwoven strand or fiber material]
    • Y10T442/659Including an additional nonwoven fabric
    • Y10T442/673Including particulate material other than fiber

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  • Separation Using Semi-Permeable Membranes (AREA)
  • Nonwoven Fabrics (AREA)

Description

PATENT SPECIFICATION ( 11)
1 582 790 ( 21) Application No 50216/77 ( 22) Filed 2 Dec 1977 ( 19) ( 31) Convention Application No 2 655 024 ( 32) Filed 4 Dec 1976 in ( 33) Fed Rep of Germany (DE) ( 44) Complete Specification published 14 Jan 1981 ( 51) INT CL 3 B 32 B 3/10 ( 52) Index of acceptance B 2 E 1106 1202 1205 1214 1317 1525 1724 401 U BB M ( 72) Inventors WOLFRAM SCHULTHEISS and KLAUS SCHMIDT ( 54) NON-WOVEN FABRICS ( 71) We, CARL FREUDENBERG, a German Company (a Kommanditgesellschaft, the present personally responsible partners of which are Helmut Fabricius, Hans Erich Freudenberg, Otto Schildhauer, Hermann Freudenberg, Dieter Freudenberg, and Reinhart Freudenberg) of 6940 Weinheim Bergstrasse, Hohnerweg 2, Germany, do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:-
Semi-permeable membranes are employed, for example, for reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration They may take the form of, for example, tubular or flat membranes They are structurally weak and so have to be supported on a supporting element This element comprises, for example, a tube or plate that perforated or provided with channels or ducts or other means for transferring liquid through or along it Because of the high pressures that are often involved in processes using semi-permeable membranes it is necessary that the intervals between the holes, channels or ducts should be fairly large for strength reasons and so it is conventional to provide a substantially incompressible porous carrier material to serve as a drainage layer between the semi-permeable membrane and the supporting element The membrane is usually coated directly onto the carrier, and the carrier thus serves both as a drainage element and as a structural support for the delicate membrane.
It is known to use, as carriers, non-woven fabrics produced either by a dry-lay or a wetlay process or by spinning of continuous fibres, and which if necessary have been consolidated by hot calendering However, all such carriers suffer from some disadvantages.
For instance, the fibre deniers that can conveniently be utilised are rather coarse in the micro range with the result that the nonwoven fabric tends to be rather rough even after calendering, and this roughness of the carrier results in the membrane coated onto the carrier having uneven thickness, on a micro scale, and thus non-uniform properties Further, isolated fibre ends or loops generally stand out from the surface of the fabric and these thus project into the membrane and in some instances through the membrane, particularly since this is often very thin being, for example, between 50 and 500 nm in many instances.
Since these problems are particularly serious with thin membranes, attempts to overcome them involving the deposition of thicker membranes have been made Thus, for instance, the amount of cellulose acetate or other material extruded onto the carrier to form the membrane may be far above the amount that is optimum for the use of the membrane in reverse osomosis or ultrafiltration For instance, the extra thickness tends to reduce the permeation rate through the membrane, as well as to increase costs.
Thus the known non-woven carriers tend to result either in a non-uniform membrane or, if the thickness of the membrane is increased, in a membrane which is more expensive and less permeable than would be desirable.
A fibrous structure according to the invention suitable for use as a carrier for a semi-permeable membrane comprises a bonded non-woven fabric into the surface of which has been calendered an overall layer of thermoplastic particles which, before calendering, are ribbon-shaped and have a minimum dimension of 30,um, the layer having been applied by electrostatic spraying of a solution of thermoplastic material, the amount and size of the particles being such that the structure has a smoother surface than the fabric and the layer is an open layer (by which we mean that the layer is an overall or continuous layer but is sufficiently open that it does not decrease the permeability of the carrier sufficiently to detrimentally affect the permeation rate of the combination of membrane and carrier) The particles, before calendering and sometimes also after calendering, have a minimum dimension of less than 30 pm and preferably have a minimum dimension of from 1 to Co of cl 0 t 1,582,790 gm The amount of the particles applied to the fabric is generally from 1 to 200, and preferably 10 to 40, grams per square metre of the fabric.
The non-woven fabric may be formed of continuous or staple, cut and/or uncut fibres and the fibres may be inorganic or organic or a mixture thereof The fibres must be bonded to one another, either by an added bonding agent or by fusion of fusible fibres within the fabric Preferably the fabric is one that has been made by a hydrodynamic or wet-lay process using fibres including thermoplastic staple fibres and which has been preconsolidated by a drying operation, so as to cause bonding by thermoplastic fibres in the fabric.
Suitable fabrics have already been proposed for use as carriers with semi-permeable membranes but in the invention they are modified by applying the covering layer of the covering layer of thermoplastic particles and then calendering this to form the open layer The overall layer of thermoplastic particles is applied by electostatic spraying of a solution of thermoplastic material, for example by the method described in British Patent Specification No 1,346,231 The particles may be applied onto one or both surfaces of the fabric A particular advantage of the electrostatic spraying is that it can be operated to give excellent uniformity of thickness over the entire width of the fabric.
After deposition of the particles, the layer is calendered, suitably under hot calendering conditions chosen to give optimum smoothing of the surface without any substantial decrease in permeability.
By the invention it is possible to make fibrous structures suitable for use as carriers for semi-permeable membranes and which have an extremely smooth and lustrous or matt surface and which have retained substantially the porosity of the starting fabric.
The extreme uniformity of smoothness obtainable in the invention is readily perceptible, even in the micro range.
A semi-permeable membrane may then be deposited on such a fibrous structure by conventional methods, for example, by casting cellulose acetate The invention permits the formation, from membrane coating solutions, of semi-permeable membranes which are thinner than have normally been required in the past on non-woven carriers and yet which do not suffer from variations in thickness and permeability Because of the great saving in materials, both in the thickness of the membrane layer and in the elimination of the need to reject substantial parts of the coated product as unsatisfactory, which is what was required previously, the invention permits the production of supported semi-permeable membrances at reduced cost and with improved permeation rates.

Claims (6)

WHAT WE CLAIM IS:-
1 A fibrous structure, suitable for use as a carrier for semi-permeable membrane, which comprises a bonded non-woven fabric into the surface of which has been calendered an overall layer of thermoplastic particles which, before calendering, are ribbon shaped and have a minimum dimension of 30 pm, the layer having been applied by electrostatic spraying of a solution of thermoplastic material, the amount and size of the particles being such that the structure has a smoother surface than the fabric and the layer is an open layer (as hereinbefore defined).
2 A structure according to claim 1 in which the particles, before calendering, have a minimum dimension of from 1 to 201 m.
3 A structure according to claim 1 or claim 2 in which the amount of the particles applied to the fabric is from 10 to 40 grams per square metre of the fabric.
4 A structure according to any preceding claim in which the non-woven fabric was made by a wet-lay process.
A structure according to claim 1 substantially as herein described.
6 A semi-permeable membrane coated on a structure according to any preceding claim.
For the Applicants:
Gill, Jennings & Every, Chartered Patent Agents, 53 to 64 Chancery Lane, London WC 2 A 1 HN.
Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Burgess & Son (Abingdon), Ltd -1981.
Published at The Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, London, WC 2 A l AY, from which copies may be obtained.
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